They are using the robotic hand to slip the hose through while being retracted, so it doesn’t get caught on the other machinery. It is amazing to watch.
For all who have not had time or a good source of the facts:
Response in numbers:
• 22,000 personnel deployed
• 1,100 vessels on site
• 2.5 million feet of boom deployed
• 243,000 barrels of oil-water mix recovered
• 17 staging areas set-up to protect shoreline
• 23,000 claims filed, 9,000 already paid